Nevada County picayune., 1887-01-26
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY REV. T. W. HAYES
Result of Prohibition in Kansas.

It may fairly be asserted that the sale ofliquor in Kansas, though not absolutely extirpated, is rcduc- cd to a minimum. The highest estimate of those well acquainted with the state does not place the amount of strong drink sold to-day at more than one fifth of the sales of seven years ago. We now ill., quirc. what are the effects of Pro hibilion upon the state?
 One fact which has followed Prohibition may not he regarded altogether as a resnlt of it, yet II should be mentioned. namely, a great increase in population. Be. fore the prohibit0ry amendment was passed by vote of the people, il was asserted that Prohibition would discourage immigration, drive away capital, break up busi- ness and ruiu the prospects of the state But precisely the contrary has been the result. Immediately upon the enactment of Prohibition Il tidal wave of immigration set to- wards the sta,e of Kansas, aud no part of the Union has made greater gain in population during the past seven years. The principal places have more than doubled their pop ulaiion, and every section of the state has felt the impetus. This x hot altogether the effect Of Pro. hibijion, but know personally of families which have settled there bccause liquor is under the ban. l could give the name ot a gentle man who, eight years ago, was addicted to liquor, and removed to Kansas in the hope that he might avoid the drunkenness. He has lived a sober life, and has become a leading citizen in his present place of residence, where no per son. not even one of his own chil- dren, knows that he ever was a drinking man.
 X second result of Prohibition is a general prosperity among the people. Not every body is rich, nor getting rich, but there are but very few poor people and almost no pauperS. There is work for all, and wages for those who work, and the wages of the worker are expended upon the home, and not upon the saloon. was especially impressed with the improved con dition of one class. the colOred people, who dropped down upon Kansas so suddenly and so strange ly in "the Negro exodus" a few years ago, and who are generally called "eXodusters." They came literally in want, without money, without clothing, without shelter and without food. In nearly all asf fna ln l. Ia 1g.l, they ate were provided by charity. But for the first time in the life of many of them they found work at fair wages, paid every week. Some of them have been idle and improvideut, but at leat ten thous- and of them now owh the little houses in which they live. Any one who will ride through the sub- urbs of Topeka, where several thousands of them live, and com pare their past and present condi- tion, cannot iail to see one benefit of Prohibition.
 A third result is the decrease Of crime. Most of the county jails of Kansas are either without inmates or occupied almost entirely by rumsellers under sentence. With the population of the State nearly twice what it was in 1878: there are not more than halt as many people in prison. The State prison at Leavelrworth has not aS many inmates as it had in 1879, even counting the rumScllers serving out deserved sentences.
 Listen to the testimony of a min. ister which wrote down from his lips: Last year came to Kansas from Navada County. Cali fornia, which has population of 15,000, with TOP saloons, an aver age of 30 criminals In jail, and an annual expense of s37 ,0O0 for the prosecution and care of criminals. l now live in Anderson county. Kansas. also having l5 900 popula. tlon but no open saloons. l find that there are lao people in the connty jail, and that thc entire ex. pcnses of the county government